NIIT climbs on launching 'Playground Kiosks’ in Bhutan

28 Feb 2012 Evaluate

NIIT is currently trading at Rs. 47.00, up by 2.55 points or 5.74% from its previous closing of Rs. 44.45 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 45.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 47.20 and Rs. 44.65 respectively. So far 1,02,000 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'B' stock of face value Rs. 2 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 60.40 on 31-Mar-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs. 34.40 on 30-Dec-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 52.60 and Rs. 44.20 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 775.00 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 33.96% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 37.50% and 28.54% respectively.

NIIT, IT training and education company has introduced a new initiative called 'Playground Kiosks’ in the hermit kingdom of Bhutan. The company had discussion for the same with the present King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck and senior government officials.

The company will be associated in driving the IT literacy programme and will set up 130 touch screen, playground kiosks in different parts of the neighboring country. The kiosk (computer learning point) will have a satellite dish, a solar panel and will be run by NIIT. Student or citizen has to get into the kiosk, log on and then they will get connected to the world, to surf, learn and entertain. The project aims to reach out to at least one lakh students, train a few thousand IT professionals, schools and enterprises in a couple of years.

NIIT is a provider of global information technology (IT) learning solutions. NIIT offers training solutions in area of IT, business process outsourcing (BPO), banking, finance and insurance, executive management education and communication and professional life skills. The company operates the largest learning content development facility in the world with capacity of reaching 5 million learners every year.

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